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Specific Purpose To inform my public speaking class about the Bahamas Central Idea Because of common interest about other countries in the world I decided to inform my public speaking class about the Bahamas Introduction l What do Millie Bobby Brown and I have in common The number 11 It's her character's name on the Netflix series Stranger Things and for me it represents the amount of times I ve been to the Bahamas To answer the question you re all asking yourself NO I never went to Atlantis ll The Bahamas is a pretty cool country lll Since I have visited the Bahamas a total of 11 times and done approximately 3 projects on it I decided I was qualified enough to tell you some things about it IV Today we re going to talk about how their music religion and cuisine make it one of the coolest countries to travel to in my honest opinion Body I The Music of the Bahamas is unique and often tells a story A The music made in the Bahamas is done so with different instruments that in turn create a multitude of different sounds 1 Goombay music is made with a large drum Bahamian secular music is played on a goatskin drums 2 Back in the 1800s when Africans were first brought over to the Bahamas they played music on whatever they could find such as a carpenter's saw and pork barrels with goat or sheep's skin 3 When I went to the Bahamas two Christmas ago I found out that this man who played a drum outside of the market still makes drums using the skin of goats he raises B The Bahamians believe in telling a story with their music
